Advantages of Open Source HRMs Compared to Consumer Grade HRMs

Last Updated on September 18, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org

  • Open Source HRMS are affordable

https://pulsesensor.com/pages/open-hardware

https://www.dfrobot.com/product-2529.html

  • They have Wiki pages:

http://wiki.sunfounder.cc/index.php?title=PulseSensor_Heart_Rate_Monitoring_Sensor_Module

https://wiki.dfrobot.com/SKU_SEN0518_Gravity_MAX30102_Heart_Rate_and_Oximeter_Sensor

  • They have open source communities with how to instructions from all over the world
  • Nobody develops barriers for these devices to access their sensor data
  • we can combine multiple devices to reach a higher accuracy
  • Open Source HRMs are not as often replaced by a newer devices by the manufacturer, where it is not clear, what exactly the advantages of the new device versus the old are, and eventially we are forced to buy a new model and ar forced to do a new validation study: